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Council makes decision on city’s waste management services

Tuesday, September 21, 2021

Following this week’s city council meeting held on Monday, September 23, the council decided on the city’s waste management service contract just days ahead of the current contract’s expiration date.

KIDS SAY

News Staff

Friday, September 17, 2021

A month into their new school year, Mrs. Griffith’s, Mrs. Hougland’s, and Mrs. Regier’s first grade class tell us how their new year has been and what its like starting first grade. Click through the gallery above to read through all of the students answers!

Aaron & Elizabeth Edge

CORDELL BLUE DEVILS FACULTY SPOTLIGHT

Hector Lucas Reporter@cordellbeacon.com

Wednesday, September 15, 2021

As Cordell schools bring back its music courses for students, they are able to do so in the form of their general vocal music teacher Elizabeth Edge and their band director Aaron Edge.

Adam Lindsey

CORDELL BLUE DEVILS STUDENT SPOTLIGHT

News Staff

Wednesday, September 15, 2021

Can you tell us a bit about yourself? I am seventeen years old. I love to learn everyday, so I enjoy being at school. My favorite subject is math, and my favorite elective at school is band. I have no pets. I have one sibling, Samuel Lindsey, who is in the eighth grade.

Heartland Flyer’s Big Game Train will roll again

48th Annual Elk City Fall Festival this weekend

News Staff

Wednesday, September 15, 2021

The Elk City Chamber of Commerce invites everyone to the 48th Annual Elk City Fall Festival on Saturday, September 18 and Sunday, September 19. This year’s event will be held at the Elk City Convention Center at 1016 East Airport Industrial Road.

Heartland Flyer’s Big Game Train will roll again

News Staff

Wednesday, September 15, 2021

The Heartland Flyer will again meet the needs of football fans traveling south for the annual Red River Rivalry game between the University of Oklahoma and the University of Texas.

L-R Jewell Pankhurts, Bertha Krehbiel and Clara Horn pose with a caretaker at Corn Heritage Village. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO

Corn Heritage Village participates in county fair

News Staff

Wednesday, September 15, 2021

Residents from Corn Heritage Village recently completed projects which they entered in the 113th Washita County Free Fair. They did well with ribbons won by everyone!

HOGSTOP pesticide approved for use in feral hog control

Morgan Vance Morgan.vance@ag.ok.gov

Wednesday, September 15, 2021

A new pesticide is now available to farmers as an aid in the fight against feral hogs. On August 5, HOGSTOP Oral Contraceptive Formulation was registered with the Oklahoma Dept. of Agriculture, Food and Forestry. HogStop claims to decrease the fertility of male feral hogs by reducing sperm count.

Ag grants and loans now available; due by Oct. 1, 2021

Jason Harvey Jjason.harvey@ag.ok.gov

Wednesday, September 15, 2021

Two different funding opportunities, the Oklahoma Healthy Food Financing Program and the Agricultural Enhancement and Diversification Program, are now available through the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry. Applications will close October 1, 2021.

Midwestern US cattle growers help combat wildfires

Kim Kaplan

Wednesday, September 15, 2021

Using cattle grazing to create firebreaks on landscapes invaded by cheatgrass has successfully contained three rangeland wildfires in four years in the Great Basin—the latest being the Welch wildfire near Elko, Nevada, on July 18.

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